I Am Legion [Noisia x Foreign Beggars] debut album OUT NOW!
iTunes UK: http://bit.ly/IAmLegionUK
iTunes US: http://bit.ly/IAmLegionUS
iTunes AUS: bit.ly/IALITAUS
iTunes NZ: bit.ly/IALITNZ
Beatport: http://bit.ly/IALAlbum
Spotify: http://bit.ly/IALalbum
CD:
Amazon (UK): http://bit.ly/IALCDUK
Amazon (DE): http://bit.ly/IALCDDE
Bol.com (NL): http://bit.ly/IALCDNL
The album will be available very soon in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
See I Am Legion live at the following shows. (Tickets: http://iamlegion.co.uk)
September
26.09.2013 Electric, London, UK http://bit.ly/IALLondonn
27.09.2013 Bedlam @ O2, Bournemouth, UK http://bit.ly/IALBrn
28.09.2013 UKF @ Motion Bristol, UK http://bit.ly/IALBristol
October
01.10.2013 Rockhal, Luxembourg http://bit.ly/IALLuxembourg
03.10.2013 Apolo, Barcelona, Spain http://bit.ly/IALBarcelona
04.10.2013 Transbordeur, Lyon, France http://bit.ly/IALLyon
05.10.2013 Bootshaus, Cologne, Germany http://bit.ly/IALCologne
07.10.2013 Forty Kleparz, Krakow, Poland http://bit.ly/IALKrakow
08.10.2013 Basen, Warsaw, Poland http://bit.ly/IALWarsaw
10.10.2013 Roxy, Prague, Czech Rep http://bit.ly/IALPrague
11.10.2013 Arena, Vienna, Austria http://bit.ly/IALVienna
12.10.2013 Corvinteto, Budapest, Hungary http://bit.ly/IALBudapest
13.10.2013 Cvetlicarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia http://bit.ly/IALLljubljana
15.10.2013 Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy http://bit.ly/IALMilan
17.10.2013 Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France http://bit.ly/IALParis
18.10.2013 AB, Brussels, Belgium http://bit.ly/IALBrussels
19.10.2013 ADE @ Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL http://bit.ly/IALAms
20.10.2013 De Oosterpoort, Groningen, NL http://bit.ly/IALGrun
November and December
30.11.2013 Stereosonic, Perth, Australia http://bit.ly/IALAUS
01.12.2013 Stereosonic, Sydney, Australia http://bit.ly/IALAUS
07.12.2013 Stereosonic, Adelaide, Australia http://bit.ly/IALAUS
07.12.2013 Stereosonic, Melbourne, Australia http://bit.ly/IALAUS
08.12.2013 Stereosonic, Brisbane, Australia http://bit.ly/IALAUS
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Press Release:
Collaborations between musicians may not be a totally new idea, but when the heavy-weight skills of two of Europe’s premiere acts collide like this, you just have to take a step back and plug yourself in.
Made up of the incisive award-winning production skills of Noisia and the skilful swagger of UK rap crew Foreign Beggars, I AM LEGION’s much anticipated self-titled, 16 track, debut album has now been unleashed through Division Recordings / Par Excellence (OWSLA in the US). Keep your eyes well and truly peeled for the new The music video for new single ‘Choosing For You’ was premiered to rapturous response on Rolling Stone and it was directed by Tony Truand who has previously been responsible for highly viewed music videos for Noisia, Foreign Beggars and Skrillex.
Led by the debut single ‘Make Those Move’ (that was streamed over 330,000 times in just 3 weeks), this unified front takes Hip Hop and Bass to a seriously new level. Noisia’s high profile studios in Groningen, Holland were put to the test over many strategic hours to complete the final cut since 2008. As Noisia explain:
“The album was made during countless sessions (no more than 40 full studio days max) over the last five years. Many passes of production and scrutiny reached every track, alongside a plethora of feedback spread sheets and whiteboard summaries. We never set a deadline for ourselves; the whole idea of a full album only took shape later in the process when we realized how much material we had generated and how cool it could be to put it out as one big thing.”
It’s a special bond between the two crews who have previous history. Noisia and Foreign Beggars first realised their joint potential after collaborating on the 2009 track ‘Contact’ that was released on the ‘United Colours of Beggatron’ album by Foreign Beggars’ label Dented Records. This tune blew up dance floors worldwide and set a precedent for where I Am Legion is today. Its 8.5 million plays on YouTube opened up a worldwide fan base wanting more, and leaving the artists realising that they can do it alone.
Working on further material post-Contact and its otherworldly cousin tunes ‘Shellshock and ‘Soul Purge’, both crews decided to fully release themselves from trying to format anything to fit in with industry expectations or norms at all.
“This freed us further from trying to fit into any genre or writing for mainstream radio play purposes etc. We (Noisia & Foreign Beggars) come from two different places and there is a mutual curiosity and admiration that makes us want to make the coolest shit we can. The style and approach to this album has given the lyrics more breathing space and room for exploration, hence it resulting in something more of a rap album with an electronic edge, as opposed to "Dance Music" with raps on it.”
Foreign Beggars & Noisia have collaborated in the live spectrum before with high octane effects but doing a full album as a show is new territory so the dates in Sept / Oct are sure to bring something different:
“We want it to be an experience, to be dramatic and almost theatrical, and for people to walk away and feel they've really been included in the process of this album, to have been inducted into the hivemind so to speak. Our respective live shows are already better than everybody else's. You do the math...”
I Am Legion nods to rap’s erstwhile forays into electronica, absorbing elements of its present whilst laying out a reassuringly disturbed vision of what’s to come. Miss this collaboration at your own peril.
I Am Legion is Orifice Vulgatron, Nik Roos, Metropolis, Thijs de Vlieger, and Martijn van Sonderen.
http://iamlegion.co.uk